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Cauda Equina in Pregnancy: Early Management and Outcome. [PDF]

open access: yesCureus
Yildiz D   +4 more
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Sciatica

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2010
Sciatica is a symptom rather than a specific diagnosis. Available evidence from basic science and clinical research indicates that both inflammation and compression are important in order for the nerve root to be symptomatic. Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is a key mediator in animal models, but its exact contribution in human radiculopathy ...
Valat, Jean-Pierre   +4 more
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Management of Sciatica

New England Journal of Medicine, 2017
This interactive feature on the management of sciatica offers a case vignette accompanied by essays that support recommending either lumbar disk surgery or nonsurgical treatment, including physical therapy.
Zoher Ghogawala   +2 more
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Ultrasound in Sciatica

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica, 1982
Investigation of the sagittal diameter of the spinal canal by ultrasound has shown a relative stenosis in patients with sciatica. In this study 12 patients who had recovered uneventfully after being operated on for herniated lumbar discs were found to have a broader spinal canal than 10 patients treated in the same way but still suffering from pain ...
Lillemor Forsberg, Anders Wallöe
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Pathophysiology of Sciatica

Orthopedic Clinics of North America, 1991
The exact pathophysiologic mechanisms behind sciatica are incompletely known; however, compression of spinal nerve roots is known to be correlated to both pain and neural dysfunction in a segmental distribution of that specific nerve root. Compression per se may impair the transport of nutrients to the nerve tissue in such a way that affects the nerve ...
Björn Rydevik, Kjell Olmarker
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The Differential Diagnosis of Sciatica

Orthopedic Clinics of North America, 1971
Summary Sciatica, when defined as pain radiating from the back along the course of the sciatic nerve, is nearly always due to intervertebral disc disease. All the other causes of sciatica and similar pain are rare but ought to be considered, particularly when the symptoms are atypical.
Frank A. Elliott   +3 more
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Back Pain and Sciatica

Rheumatology, 1988
LOW back pain is usually a self-limiting symptom, but it costs at least $16 billion each year1 , 2 and disables 5.4 million Americans.3 The fact that a benign physical condition has such an importa...
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Sciatica

New England Journal of Medicine, 2015
Allan H, Ropper, Ross D, Zafonte
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